Suppression Of Collisional Decoherence Of Optically Trapped Atoms
Nir Davidson
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
High density ensembles of cold atoms can be used as quantum memory devices, but often suffer from a high collision rate that leads to rapid decoherence. We present a new method to suppress this decoherence mechanism using a continuous strong echo pulse, achieving a thirty-fold increase in the coherence time of cold Rb atoms trapped in a dipole trap.